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Evil_Spork
01-27-2005, 06:35 PM
does the onboard sata raid support raid5 with NCQ? thats what i need!
Dissolved
01-27-2005, 06:52 PM
NCQ yes, but i dont think it has Raid5. Raid5 onboard is piontless to me. 0+1 would be good enough.
sill3114 supports raid 5, according to my manual, but the onboard nv sata doesn't.
about NCQ, how do i know if its enabled or not? there isn't like a bios option for it.
Dissolved
01-27-2005, 07:30 PM
run a benchmark you'll know.
Dissolved
01-27-2005, 08:31 PM
yea, that would work.
maxtor is almost as fast as a raptor, so bench the maxtor and you can probly see the extra speed.
i did that, i got like 133MB/s burst, and avg speed was like 56. so is NCQ enabled?
Evil_Spork
01-27-2005, 11:04 PM
i did that, i got like 133MB/s burst, and avg speed was like 56. so is NCQ enabled?
yep... 133 is high for only 56 average. ncq will benefit burst speed alot.
i need raid5 cuz 0+1 doesnt offer enough storage. i want more than half the space of my hdds... GRRR guess im stuck buying a controller. :(
Dissolved
01-27-2005, 11:30 PM
how much space are you looking for?
just buy a couple 300gb maxtor sata2's. and use a raptor for your OS drive.
if you buy a card, LSI makes about the best cards but a sata2 raid5 card will cost a poop load.
Evil_Spork
01-27-2005, 11:32 PM
how much space are you looking for?
just buy a couple 300gb maxtor sata2's. and use a raptor for your OS drive.
if you buy a card, LSI makes about the best cards but a sata2 raid5 card will cost a poop load.
i already have 4 seagate 160gig sata2 NCQ drives.
2 drives wont yeild any performance gains in raid 1. and i would need more than 2 for raid 0+1 :stick:
pcfreak
01-28-2005, 12:46 AM
You could try this (http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20041119/)
GRAFiZ
01-28-2005, 12:49 AM
Depends on the mobo... the Gigabyte SLI board supports RAID 5 and I think the DFI SLI-DR does as well?
Evil_Spork
01-28-2005, 01:55 AM
Depends on the mobo... the Gigabyte SLI board supports RAID 5 and I think the DFI SLI-DR does as well?
the DR does, but thats only on the SI controller which doesnt support NCQ :(
software raid5 is VERY VERY cpu intensive and would seriously hinder system performance. that pretty much rules that out in my book...
:shrug:i guess it looks like ill have to have 0+1 :( makes me sad!
im losing 150gigs of space. :bs: :slash: :brick:
so theres really no way to make the dfi ultra-d do raid5 without a controller? :(
Evil_Spork
01-28-2005, 02:19 AM
well... would you guys trust 4 seagate sata 160gig drives in raid 0? i trust seagate but i want the security of mirroring.
so am i stuck with 0+1? :(
jikdoc
01-28-2005, 02:55 AM
well... would you guys trust 4 seagate sata 160gig drives in raid 0? i trust seagate but i want the security of mirroring.
so am i stuck with 0+1? :(
imaging software is your friend. use acronis or ghost, backups take less than 15min and restores take about the same.
Evil_Spork
01-28-2005, 02:56 AM
imaging software is your friend. use acronis or ghost, backups take less than 15min and restores take about the same.
with the amount of junk i have? i would need a few more of these lol
the image would likely be 100gigs in itself :(
Dissolved
01-28-2005, 04:18 AM
WHY do you need to Raid all these so called "junk files"?
if there just storage files, they dont need raid xD
Evil_Spork
01-28-2005, 11:15 AM
lol, i just have alot of files, and i want to keep them fast and secure.
im going to have a total of the 4 seagates(sata) plus a wd120 and a sg120 ide aswell. right now im using just the IDE and i have virtually no room left.
Evil_Spork
01-28-2005, 01:42 PM
been thinking... i think i found my answer!
3 disk raid0, + the last disk for holding an image of the data. i can image once a week and be safe enough.
3 disk raid0 is faster than 2 or 4 disk so i gain speed there, plus i get to image protection on the last sata disk. then i also have my 2 pata hdds to use for whatever else i want!
Magnj
01-28-2005, 05:03 PM
good god you must have a lot of porn man! :P ... My PC is goign to start with an 80G NCQ HD...
Evil_Spork
01-28-2005, 05:14 PM
good god you must have a lot of porn man! :P ... My PC is goign to start with an 80G NCQ HD...
lol!! thats only like 20gi.... wait.. :yawn:
heheh
my main hdd at 120gig is full, ive had to move files to my seconds hdd and delete it off my main! so the 3 160gig drives will be really nice. :)